Instant Reaction: a perfect score for me again in terms of predictions (I thought they might end with Philomena but if 9 then Her) but I really wish they'd just go back to 10 or, even better, 5. 9 is a stupid number. As per usual the Best Picture nominees really dominated all awardage with a total of 61 nominations between them.

Secondary Reaction: I had expected 12 Year a Slave to lead the nominations but despite a hefty nomination total egregious snubs happened in the tech fields. No Cinematography is virtually unfathomable but it happened.

BEST ACTOR

christian Bale AMERICAN HUSTLE

Bruce Dern NEBRASKA

leonardo Dicaprio THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

chiwetel ejiofor 12 YEARS A SLAVE

matthew mcconaughey DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

Instant Reaction: All that time I took worrying about whether it would be Robert Redford or Leonardo DiCaprio was pointless since it was Christian Bale that threw Redford AND Hanks off their boats... I'm sad about the latter because Tom Hanks did his best work since at least 1992 in that picture.

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barkhad Abdi CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

Bradley cooper AMERICAN HUSTLE

michael fassbender 12 YEARS A SLAVE

Jonah Hill THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

Jared leto DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

Instant reaction: one of my only 100% correct categories. I'd be way said for Daniel Brühl if not for the category fraud.

BEST ACTRESS

Amy Adams AMERICAN HUSTLE

cate Blanchett BLUE JASMINE

sandra Bullock GRAVITY

Judi Dench PHILOMENA

meryl streep AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

Instant Reaction: Genuinely surprised it was Emma Thompson who got the boot. I prefer her to all but one of these nominations, truth be told. But the Adams and Streep nominations just go to show you that being in a movie people love and/or being a reflexive vote is the way to go to rack up nominations.

David O. Russell has now accomplished a rare feat in back to back years. Directing a nominee in EACH acting category

ANIMATED FILM

The CroodsChris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson

DespicaBle me 2Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri

Ernest & CelestineBenjamin Renner and Didier Brunner

FrozenChris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho

The Wind RisesHayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki

Instant Reaction: No Monsters University is not sad but if ever they owed a disposable sequel nod to make up for an atrocious shafting of an original (Shrek over Monsters Inc is the grossest thing they've done in terms of Animated Feature wins)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Grandmaster Philippe Le Sourd

Gravity Emmanuel Lubezki

Inside Llewyn Davis Bruno Delbonnel

Nebraska Phedon Papamichael

Prisoners Roger A. Deakins

Instant Reaction: Sean Bobbit (12 Years a Slave) left on the outside of this is probably, bar none, the single most appaling decisino the Academy made. I'm considering him for my win. And for what? Nebraska because black and white? No.

The Invisible WomanCOSTUME DESIGN

American Hustle Michael Wilkinson

The Grandmaster William Chang Suk Ping

The Great Gatsby Catherine Martin

The Invisible Woman Michael O’Connor

12 Years a Slave Patricia Norris

Instant Reaction: beautiful list!

Secondary Reaction: I have two interviews coming up from this nominee pool. Stay tuned.

BEST DIRECTOR

American Hustle David O. Russell

Gravity Alfonso Cuarón

Nebraska Alexander Payne

12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen

The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese

Instant Reaction: ugh on Scorsese getting this over Spike Jonze for Her.

DOCUMENTARY

The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen

Cutie and the Boxer Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher

Dirty Wars Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill

The Square Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer

20 Feet From Stardom Nominees to be determined

Instant Reaction: As far as I know I was the only pundit who never once believed that Stories We Tell would be nominated but that doesn't mean I'm happy to be right. Great movie... but this category just hates it when filmmakers push the form.

Instant Reaction #2: No Blackfish? Huh. I thought that would win.

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Cavedigger Jeffrey Karoff

Facing Fear Jason Cohen

Karama Has No Walls Sara Ishaq

The Lady in Number Six: Music Saved My Life Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed

Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall Edgar Barens

Instant Reaction: I can't wait to see Cavedigger. Looks so cool.

FILM EDITING

American Hustle Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten

Captain Phillips Christopher Rouse

Dallas Buyers Club John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa

Gravity Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger

12 Years a Slave Joe Walker

Instant Reaction: I really wonder if this wouldn't have been your Best Picture list in ye olden times of 5 nominees with Dallas as the surprise fifth slotter despite no directing nomination

Later: Oh, no Thelma Schoonmaker. I guess some editors could see the strain in getting that thing down to 180 minutes.

FOREIGN FILM

Broken circle Breakdown Belgium

The Great Beauty Italy

The Hunt Denmark

The Missing Picture Cambodia

Omar Palestine

Instant Reaction: I'm so pleased to see The Missing Picture nominated. And the Grandmaster can't even feel snubbed since it got nominations in other categories.

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Dallas Buyers Club Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews

Bad Grandpa Stephen Prouty

The Lone Ranger Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny

Instant Reaction: No American Hustle? What is this branch even doing?

ORIGINAL SCORE

The Book Thief John Williams

Gravity Steven Price

Her William Butler and Owen Pallett

Philomena Alexandre Desplat

Saving Mr Banks Thomas Newman

Instant Reaction: Ladies and gentlemen, the gentlemen's club would like to honor... the same people they always honor. Join us on March 2nd forzzz (although the Her score is a nice surprise)

ORIGINAL SONG

Alone yet not Alone ALONE YET NOT ALONE Music by Bruce Broughton Lyric by Dennis Spiegel

Happy DESPICABLE ME 2 Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams

let it Go FROZEN Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

Instant Reaction: After watching the trailer to Alone Yet Not Alone I am midlly terrified that it gets to call itself an Oscar nominee. But I haven't heard the song so I'll shut up. Still... this category. What to do about it?

So happy to see K.K. Barrett recognized for "Her"

PRODUCTION DESIGN

American Hustle Production Design: Judy Becker Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler

Before Midnight Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke

Captain Phillips Screenplay by Billy Ray

Philomena Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

12 Years a Slave Screenplay by John Ridley

The Wolf of WAll street Screenplay by Terence Winter

Instant Reaction: I've already griped enough about my feeling that sequels should not be "adapted" (sorry Before Midnight)... they're merely continuations. But the nomination I don't get here is Wolf of Wall Street since we've heard over and over again that the actors just improvised every scene (and it shows, for better and worse)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

American Hustle Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell

Blue JAsmine Written by Woody Allen

Dallas Buyers club Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack

Her Written by Spike Jonze

Nebraska Written by Bob Nelson

Instant Reaction: The WGA list again, right?

The Live Stream Such As It Was...Chris Hemsworth is tall. And his voice... oh my

Will take hours to sink in all around, but I am surprised for them going for Bale in American Hustle. I think he's quite good in it, yet in such a packed Actor year, I do feel like that part wasn't showy enough to get in the five for the Academy.

I still have to make up my mind on "TWoWS" (I read too much comments about it, and it tends to influence on me, so I wanna take time to do that), but there's something I'm sure, is that Jonah Hill is amazing in it. Also, yay for Meryl.

Wow, have we ever seen so many power players surprisingly snubbed morning of? I somehow suspected the Emma snub, no matter that I didn't want it. Bale's inclusion seems the biggest surprise and surely will convince a lot of people of the picture's ability to win.

One of my last-minute, no guts no glory predictions was that all 4 American Hustle leads would be nominated... I'm shocked that this actually happened, especially since Bale got in over Hanks (WTF?!?!?!) AND Phoenix.

I let out screams of joy for Before Midnight, Her in Best Picture, and Sally Hawkins (even though I wouldn't have nominated her myself. I just like her).

THRILLED for The Grandmaster's cinematography and costume noms. Also for Her in production design and score. How in the world did American Hustle miss the makeup and hairstyling nom? Sad that The Great Gatsby missed for score and song.

• After three years' running, I think it's safe to say that 9 Best Picture nominees is the presumptive mean. (Median? One of those.)

• I remember when Captain Phillips seemed to be fading from the Best Picture ranking and thinking to myself, "As long as Paul Greengrass is likely to be nominated, Captain Phillips will stay in the hunt." Funny how that worked out.

• I also remember thinking Tom Hanks would be get two nominations this year. Like, 30 minutes ago I was thinking that.

• The lack of anything major for Inside Llewyn Davis should confirm our suspicions that A Serious Man was nominee #10 four years ago.

I can't wait to see which mediocre comedy will dare to market themselves with that fact first. 22 Jump Street has the time advantage, but would that film be marketed that way? I'm thinking Sausage Party will be the first to do it for comedy's sake next year.

I was so happy for Sally Hawkins and Karen O (who should be on her 4th nomination--score and song for Where the Wild Things Are, song for Frankenweenie) that I almost forgot that it looks like 11 films cover the bulk of the nominations: Best Picture + Blue Jasmine and August: Osage County.

I have to let this out of my chest: David O Russell has got to be the most overrated director in Oscar history. How on earth does he make two so-so movies back-to-back and yet gets so much love from the Academy?